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Runner-Up. Gregg Easterbrook, ESPN.com. Preseason prediction: "Philadelphia should once again own the Dallas Cowboys." The Cowboys beat the Eagles in consecutive weeks, by a combined 58-14. Preseason prediction: "There is obvious potential for fiasco" in Minnesota's signing of Brett Favre. Minnesota made the NFC Championship Game. Late-season prediction: "The Jets are just a terrible team -- they seem very vulnerable." The Jets made the AFC championship.

Runner-Up. Skip Wood, USA Today. Before the season started, he forecast the Saints to win the Super Bowl -- the only such prediction I saw. Then on the eve of the playoffs, when the 12 entrants were known, Wood forecast the Chargers to win the Super Bowl. Skip, stay with your instincts!

Runner-Up. Steve Silverman, MSNBC. "The Jets are headed for a sub-.500 season" while the Saints "should finish at the .500 mark once again" because "Sean Peyton does not know how to get his team to play consistently."

Runner-Up. Michael Wilbon, Washington Post. The Colts will take the Super Bowl because Peyton Manning will not make mistakes: "The Saints won't be able to pick him off enough ... to win the game." The Saints won on a Manning interception returned for a touchdown.

Runner-Up. Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN. In a monument to bad prediction, Woj forecast that JaMarcus Russell would have a "breakout season" (he was benched), the Jets would finish last in their division (they made the conference title game), the Colts wouldn't win their division (they reached the Super Bowl), that Thomas Jones "doesn't come close to the 1,312 rushing yards he had a season ago" (Jones had 1,402 yards), and that New England would win the Super Bowl (the Patriots lost at home in the first round). Then, after predicting before the season that Indianapolis would have a bad year, on the eve of the Super Bowl, Wojo said a Colts victory was "indisputable." Indianapolis lost. (Wojciechowski recently wrote a column in which he addressed his 44 NFL predictions this season.

Worst Prediction of the Year. Bucky Brooks, NFL.com. He foresaw a season in which the Saints' offense "fails them," and predicted the Colts and Saints both would miss the playoffs. New Orleans had the No. 1 offense in the league, and defeated the Colts in the Super Bowl.

NFL season has come to a close -- time to look back at all the awful predictions! - ESPN

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cajun911

Thats why you have to take these guys with a grain of salt. They really don't know ****!

exile

I found a good one.

Rugby Saint II

We knew this was the year..........No matter how good we looked, somebody else always looked better to the media. I never really thought they had a clue anyway.

CantonLegend

its because we would blow out our opponents the first half of the season, and then win by only a TD in the second half of the season

not to mention the loss to dallas and tampa baby because we were looking ahead and not looking 1 game at a time

focus on the task at hand like we did in the playoffs

oh and "experts" get paid to talk, not to think

Belair57

yet folks seem to really get upset with getting RESPECT from some D-bag on ESPN when doesnt pick up.....I dont get it, we all know they are idiots, yet their picks bother us

skymike

hahahahahahahahaha!

idiots-- all of them! Kiss our ass!

st thomas

thats only a teaspoon of the fools who are paid to run us nuts with there predictions

skymike

thomas, it snowed in Lafayette?